I have a Dell laptop bought in the USA - I am in the UK.

I have a problem that the spell check in Word XP seems to default to
English US not English UK.

I have set the default language as English UK and turned off 'Detect
language automatically'.

I have made the normal.dot default language English UK so new ducumnts
I write don't have this problem.

However, with most old documents I open or documents that people send
me Word seems to want to check it in English US, even if I reset the
language to UK.

All I want is for Word to spell check every document in English UK
irrespective of the origin.

Is this possible????

Any help appreciated.